By KELIN DILLON New reports have revealed that Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) used 64 shell companies to issue 2,445 invoices totaling to 31 million pesos over the years, a practice it has long admonished and lambasted opponents for doing. Morena has allegedly used these ghost invoicing companies since the party’s creation in 2014, beginning the practice just
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By KELIN DILLON As of Sunday, Aug. 1, a new scheme of price limits on liquified petroleum (LP) natural gas has been enacted throughout Mexico, with the cost cap varying from state to state and within municipalities. Thanks to an initiative by the country’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener), the price limit will be set on a weekly basis by the
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By KELIN DILLON Reports from Mexico’s federal intelligence have revealed the country’s numerous cartels, including the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, have recently expanded into using drones equipped with explosives and various other technologies to aid them in drug trafficking. The new drone weaponry allegedly comes from a small group of seven people
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since it opened its first restaurant here in Mexico City back in 2014, the Puebla-based Entre Fuegos group has been dedicated to bringing the true tastes of one of Mexico’s most culturally rich and historic states to capital consumers. From that most classic of Pueblan dishes, mole poblano, to deep-fried pelonas stuffed with black beans,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is apparently investigating the financial operators of former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Secretary of the Treasury Luis Videgaray Caso, as well as those of former National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya Cortés, according to a report from the Milenio daily newspaper. Milenio said that those
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By KELIN DILLON Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s government-owned petroleum company, is reportedly on track to have a record-breaking amount of stolen gas in the year 2021, thanks to Mexico’s “huachicoleros,” meaning gas thieves. Since the official record of gas thefts in the country in 2011, the huachicoleros reportedly upped their efforts 3,108 percent between 2019 and May of 2021. Pemex’s
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By KELIN DILLON Intense rainfall in the State of Mexico (Edoméx) on the night of Monday, July 5, caused massive flooding throughout the region, leaving cars submerged in water and streets akin to rivers. The municipality Atizapán de Zaragoza experienced such heavy hail and rains that authorities warned people and pets could get swept away in the currents racing through
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) this week expropriated 109 hectares of private property in the State of Mexico (Edoméx) to be used in the ongoing construction of the new General Felipe Ángeles International Airport. The new airport — which is a pet project of the president and which he
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Ever at odds with the media — both national and international –Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Wednesday, June 23, that he will soon be adding a new weekly segment to his daily press conferences, in which he will list those publications and broadcasters that he considers to be presenting “false
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